hi . im 15 . at my school we have a salad bar and i got a salad today and one of the topings i grabbed was a cut in half boiled egg . the outside was white and the inside had light yellow yolk . it looked perfectly fine . but when i took a bite of it , it tasted awful . i can't explain the taste but it tasted very rotten . i then smelled it & it smelled very bitter . it's been almost 5 hours since i ate it & i haven't had any symptoms . but im wondering if i could have gotten food poisoning from that ?

I don't know that a dr would be able to help unless there are symptoms; sickness, diarrhoea etc. I imagine they would tell you to just wait until it passes and drink lots of fluids, or take rehydration salts. I don't think there is a preventative for food poisoning (except good food hygiene).

Sorry, I didn't see your question yesterday. IBS is also exacerbated by stress, so it might be you are bringing it on by worrying so much about this.

I've eaten things I've worried were iffy before, but you just have to wait and hope for the best. Usually the instant it hits your stomach/colon, your system will try to get it out as quickly as possible. When I had food poisoning, it hit 2 or 3 hours after the meal, and I was violently sick for the rest of the night.